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sensation which seems to attend it, is that of sneez- 

 ing- ; but a confirmed snuff-taker loses this pleasure ; 

 liesides, the taking- of every pinch (as a nol)le writer 

 once calculated,) with the ceremony of blowing and 

 wiping- the nose, occupies a minute and half; a great 

 ])art of a snuff-taker's life, therefore, will be passed 

 in tickling- and wiping his nose, to say nothing of 

 the cost of snuff, and the Avear and tear of pocket- 

 handkerchiefs, which decent persons will use instead 

 (jf their fingers. In truth, the purchase of tol)acco 

 and snuff drains a great part of a poor man's income, 

 which would be better laid out in the purchase of 

 milk or bread for himself or his children ; and far- 

 ther as a farmer, I have strong objections to the 

 growing of tobacco in Ireland. 



I. While it requires the whole or principal part of 

 the farm-yard manure, it does not make any return 

 to it again; it does not, like almost every other vege- 

 table, contribute to its own nourishment by genera- 

 ting dung. 



II. In qroportion to the extension of its culture, 

 those green crops, which are necessary to the support 

 of man and beast, and so essential to good husbandry, 

 must be chminished. 



III. Because it reqmres more than a just share of 

 the time and attention of a farmer's family, which 

 ought to be more equally bestowed on the varied ob- 

 jects of his care, — a good farmer never complaining 

 that he has nothing to do, — he and his people being 

 always engaged at something, which would be ne- 

 glected, if Tobacco, to much extent, were to have a 

 ])lace in his ground. 



IV. Because in this climate it is a most uncer- 

 tain crop, (witness last year's produce in the county 

 of Wexford,) and likely to be far inferior on an ave- 

 I'age of years, to that which is imported from Ame- 

 rica ; or to what may be grown in many parts of 

 England. 



V. Because the profit which during the last h\v 

 years has been, in some places, realized by tobacco. 



